We're hearing a lot of bad news on the school front. Lower performance, shrinking budgets, schools closing, teacher layoffs. While schools are getting less, they are also on the verge of sweeping educational reform.
Schools are embracing technology in new and exciting ways allowing teachers to improve their relationships with parents. We're really only seeing the very beginning. Student's are using devices, computers, social media and technology at home. The challenge is bringing schools up to speed with new and collaborative ways of learning.
There are many companies in support of improving education. Some relationships based on profit, some on supplying commodities and some based on education innovation.
Many see schools as a business segment where a good is sold to a school at a profit. Some see education as just any other business that buys cleaning supplies, paper and other commodity type products. Even fewer see schools as dynamic, changing systems that need improvement. This last category brings innovation and change to the market.
I see fundraising as the latter.
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In my next post, I'll explore just how fundraising will be a part of educational reform and the technological changes on the horizon.
